Letterbox Gallery

about this work

“Letterbox Gallery” is an art project designed to humorously critique elitism and fraud in the art world. By founding a gallery that exists only as a physical mailbox in Vienna’s 1st district, the project hosted 31 consecutive solo shows in one day, offering artists the chance to add a “Blue-Chip Gallery” exhibition to their résumés while questioning the authenticity and value of such institutions.

exhibitions

Lorenz Kunath
Nikola Supuković
Emil Gamauf
Sami Çiftçi
Barnabás Bácsi
Sophie Louise Passow
Elisabeth Töltl
Johnny Linder
Brigitte Mahlknecht
Hannah Schneider
Nele Hazod
Timna Lugstein
Jule Thullner
Isabella Andrea Pacher
Gabriel Rózsa
Mira Loeve
Roman Peter Prostejovsky
Julian Badstöber
Sarah Steiner
Paul Schneller
Dion Lewis Weber
Dilara Uz
Zoei Paulopoulou
Rosa Zappella
Ahmed Thaer
Constanze Budke
Valentin Bossart
Paul Riedmüller
Louise Lotzing
Freaky Green Fish
Elias Rudigier
Methap Uz
Lisa

Map Mop Epilog
Entity Component System
Kuriosa
Tape Babe
This is my best paud solo show so far
Bio Zellen
Abwarten und Tee trinken
Licking Flavor
Early Drawings
Falter Fangen
Jääse
Die Eintagsfliege
Nichts und keine Gedanken
Dort Epilog
Welcome to Reality
Errökl
Gravure
Ich box dich weg
Constellations
Welt
Dark Wave
Red Nicht
DICH
Castle in the Sand
Ohne Titel
Still Life
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled

terminology

Letterbox Company

A letterbox company (German: Briefkastengesellschaft, also shell corporation; also known as Briefkastenfirma or Offshore-Firma in German; in Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Domizilgesellschaft) is a colloquial term for a company that is registered in a company register and legally exists, but does not actually conduct any business operations.

Exhibition Farming

A term I invented that aims to generate as many exhibitions as possible.

Blue-Chip

Originally, the compound adjective “blue-chip” was used in the business world to define companies or low-risk investments that can be trusted and are unlikely to fail.